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Health sure is versatile. It's possible to be both light-headed and dim-witted. At the same time, no less.
@OP: Immune to Mind Control isn't gender specific, but it should still cover it.
I wouldn't mind failure so much, if I didn't fail so much.
If a Trope is made from this, I would be more inclusive and make the Trope “Selective Mind Control”, as their are instances of other “only control some types of people” (Doctor Who features “blood control”, only affecting those with a certain blood type)
I think Immune to Mind Control is enough to cover those cases
^ ITMC works as exceptions while "selective mind control" works as a rule, so I think they're distinct.
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
So what conclusion we got?
If there's a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison
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If there's a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison
^ That we don't exactly have this.
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
We don't seem to have a trope for "Arbitrary Power Restriction".
Health sure is versatile. It's possible to be both light-headed and dim-witted. At the same time, no less.
^That I think is more in the territory of Weaksauce Weakness or Kryptonite Factor note , but Selective Mind Control does sound like a viable YKTTW.
I'll also throw out a suggestion for modified version of the broader trope, though: Only Works On X - sort of a not-quite-inverse of Kryptonite Factor or Weaksauce Weakness where a power only works on a limited subset of things or in a specific situation.
Worm and Ward comes to mind as a series that gets a lot of mileage out of this idea; as part of Wildbow's efforts to make Heart Is an Awesome Power and Lethal Harmless Powers two of the scariest tropes in the catalogue, most powers in the setting have some odd quirk or restriction that requires the user to get a bit creative, like the character with powerful telekinesis that only affects silicanote or the character who can turn into an unstoppable murder-beast...but only when unobserved.
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^ That'd Situational Sword
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
I Have Boobs, You Must Obey! is related, at least.
^More strictly about the power itself only being usable by one sex (rather than only affecting), but maybe this could work as a variant of that if it doesn't go through TLP. If it does, I've an example.note
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Does anyone know how to do the opening paragraph?
Edited by JTTWlover If there's a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison
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If there's a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison
Also on the earlier Situational Sword thing: that'd be a sister trope or possibly even a subtrope to what I was suggesting-
- Situational Sword: a generally useful thing (usually a weapon) activates some (often hidden) ability in certain circumstances- dealing extra damage to giant spiders, healing the wielder when they're in life-threatening danger, projecting a protective holy barrier when fighting demons...
- suggested trope: basically The Same, but More Specific applied to something as a form of Power at a Price. Some item or effect (a type of magic, a Stock Superpower, a weapon, etc) that has an unusual limitation on what it can affect at all- say, a sword that passes harmlessly through anything except demons, a healing spell that can only affect people who have mortal wounds note , a barrier that only affects people who have lived in Cleveland at some point...
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